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Senior Housing & Living Centers
Making the right choice for the elderly California Associates for Nursing Home Reform CANHR publishes fact sheets on a wide range of topics important to long term care consumers. Catholic Charities of Santa Clara Long Term Care Ombudsman Program: advocates for people in nursing and residential care homes. 2625 Zanker Road, San Jose 408-468-0100 Senior housing and specific living communities in Milpitas, California. City of Milpitas Seniors Housing & Services There are specific affordable housing opportunities and public services serving only Milpitas’ Seniors Citizens. Please contact the organizations on this link for more information. DeVries Place Provides affordable rental homes for low-income seniors while helping to restore the character of…
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Homeless in Milpitas: Concerns and Solutions
Milpitas needs to be more aware of the plight of the homeless in our small city, living in forested freeway exits and under bridges next to our streams. Concerns Action Groups Resources Housing and Shelters Hillview Court Other Shelters News & Legal Action Food Health Concerns Regarding the Homeless Here is what we chose between: Letting our homeless population living like this: Or housing them by cooperating with the county at the Extended Stay on Hillview Court. Action Groups Addressing Homelessness Homelessness Task Force On January 5, 2021, the City Council, upon the request of Mayor Tran, approved the establishment of a Homelessness Task Force. The purpose of the Task…
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LGBTQ Milpitas
While Milpitas is far from being a city known for its LGBTQ community, as we really have no night life here for anyone, we do have activities and services to serve this part of our community, and most businesses are open and friendly to people of all sorts. Milpitas is proud to be the hometown of Broadway’s Drag Darling Cacophony Daniels. Milpitas Pride Part 1 Broadway’s Drag Darling Cacophony Daniels welcomes you to Milpitas Pride with the song “Perfect Day” from Legally Blonde. Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 – Part 5 Milpitas Pride Flag Raising 2020 Avenidas Rainbow Collective Monthly LGBTQ+ social group. We are collaborating with…
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Developer of Sunnyhills Apartments renews HUD contract for 5 more years
ByRhoda Shapiro March 29, 2023 Sunnyhills Apartment residents after a Milpitas City Council meeting. Residents of the Sunnyhills Apartments can breathe a sigh of relief – at least for the next 5 years. JMK Investments, the developer of the historic apartment complex, recently renewed the Housing and Urban Development (HUD) contract until 2028, ensuring that 149 of the units there maintain subsidized housing status. Weeks ago, things looked uncertain… Residents of the Sunnyhills Apartments spent recent months launching a petition and asking the City of Milpitas for support in retaining their affordable housing. The City had conversations with the developer, leading to a renewed contract of 5 additional years, which…
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Retirement Through the Eyes of a Child
After a spring break, a teacher asked her young pupils how they spent the holidays. One child wrote the following: “We always used to spend the holidays with Grandma and Grandpa. They used to live here in a big brick house, but Grandpa got retarded and they moved to Milpitas. Now they live in a place with a lot of other retarded people. They live in a tin box and have rocks painted green to look like grass. They ride around on big tricycles and wear name tags because they don’t know who they are anymore. They go to a building called a wrecked center, but they must have got…
